A reader spotted this specimen in a parking lot back in August. The reader was concerned that it may have intentionally placed itself in this numbered space, as an attempt to communicate with other peels. I don’t know for sure, but I can’t rule it out, either.
On November 18, I was walking to my car after work in Glendale. It was already dark out, and I was imagining the delicious dinner I would make when I got home. Then I came across this nasty scrap of a peel rotting on the curb, and immediately lost my appetite.
Thanks a lot for spoiling my dinner!
A while back, The Wall Street Journal reported that people in New York eat about 600 million bananas a year. That’s 1,643,835 bananas a day. That would explain why, on a recent trip there, we documented 4 peels in one day. Imagine how many more we missed! Thankfully we made it home safely.
The Kraken of Brooklyn waits for its next victim.
On Oct. 11, someone threw all their snacks at the trash can, and missed.
A bottle of gin and a coupla bananas: the makings of a great dinner date? Or was this a passive-aggressive move by an angry drunk? Either way, somebody left their trash on the street for everyone to see.
That mop might come in handy if someone slips on that peel.
Thanks Daniel for the great photos!
On Sunday mornings, the sidewalks are littered with the relics of Saturday night’s debauchery. Many times, I have gone out for coffee on a Sunday morning and stepped over champagne corks, confetti, wigs and mustaches, empty liquor bottles, and much worse. Last Sunday around noon, I spotted this menace haunting a shuttered cannabis club on Melrose Avenue.
It only looks like it’s sleeping.
After being discarded, this peel was treated roughly by the unforgiving Los Angeles traffic and a poorly maintained street. Although disgraced and reviled, like an impoverished princess in ragged finery, it still wears its bright blue sticker, that distinct emblem of quality, reminding us of its proud heritage, and that once, not so long ago, it was a fine, ripe piece of fruit.
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